From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:04 PM
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
Many PC boards have had mods that are later
reversed. Anyone looking at
the
repaired boards can see that it was done to put the board back to the
original state, the same can not be said if a screw is replaced.
I'm assuimg the context here is that the modifications are being done by
the archivist (if not then someone is mixing their arguments).
That being the case, which would you consider worse?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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There are two things that can be done to preserve a machine: Keep the
original parts in the machine even if it no longer works. Revive the
machine even if it requires replace a classic component that is no longer
available with a current replacement.
In the second case it becomes important to document what was done and why
but both are valid ways to preserve machines.
To replace an original part with a different part with no valid reason it is
a shame, part of history is lost for no good reason.
Randy
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